Oakville Senior High School - Tiger Paw Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Reaching for the ball, Debbie Johnson and her Parkway Ceniral opponents play To Their upper mosi abiliiy. Flicking her wrist, Lisa Allen displays Qreai agiliiy while shooiing ai The hoop. Scrambling under the nei, Oakville pulls ahead wiih a shoi from Sam Buford. MMS? Boiiorn row: Lisa Allen and Ann lVlcVey, Second row: Laura Harmon, Debbie Johnson, and Laurie Aldy., Top row: Margie Beck, Karen Chalupny, Sam Buford, Coach John Carringion, Melissa Meinberg, Roxanne Hake, and Trisha VanFleeT. MW! 1 811 - Varsity Girls Baskeiball ,

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uTs and willpower aid frosh. JV rapping To fame Each winTer The Oakville Junior VarsiTy WresTling Team begins an- oTher season, anoTher winning season. This year The sTory's The same, only The names have changed. The Tigers were paced by ouT- sfanding wresTlers Phil Hagemann and Chris Garavaglia, and led by capTains Tony Weldele and Ken Florian. The squad compiled a 7 win 3 loss duel meel record. placed lsT in The Oakville quad, and 2nd in boTh The Lindbergh and Pacific TournamenTs. Coach lvlike Skinner believes hard work. care for one anoTher, and sum- mer wresTling clinics resulTed in yeT anoTher exTraordinary sea- son. TradiTionally, Oakville Freshman wresTling has been a wrecking crew. UndefeaTed seasons were The expecTaTion. The main rea- son for This was excellenT coaches and ambiTious aThleTes. This season, despiTe some changes, Oakville mainTained The superb coaching ThaT has been Their Trademark. For an undefined reason Though, aspiring aThleTes weren'T lured To The maT. As a resull, The Tigers were confinually sacrificing poinTs because of va- cancies in weighT classes. DespiTe The apparenT Toll suf- fered by a void in The line-up, Ti- ger wresTlers conTinued Their indi- vidual success. The ones ThaT sTuck wiTh The Team improved every maTch, explained Frosh coach Mike lVlaTlock. And wiTh a liTTle work, who knows? i'They can, wiTh freesTyle wresTling, have The poTenTial To have a sTaTe championship Team. Roughing up his opponenf, Dan Loeffel- man Tries To score a few poinTs. Two poinTs for a Take down, yelled The ref, as Tom Kelam pushed for a vicTory. JV WresTling

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icTory sTrikes baskeTball sTars arsiTy girls aim, shooT and rebound STriving To make every baskeT counT, The VarsiTy Tigers were ouTsTanding. They won firsT place in The Oakville TournamenT and Took Third in The SouThwesT Subur- ban League TournamenT. We are noT doing as well as we had expecTed To do, com- menTed Debbie Johnson. Howev- er, There were a number of girls on The Team ThaT broke school, local, and sTaTe records and were also ranked among The areas besT. They were Laurie Aldy wiTh The mosT assisTs and sTeals, Sam Bu- ford wiTh The mosT poinTs and leading rebounder, Lisa Allen leading in assisTs and scoring, and Missy Meinburg wiTh The mosT block shoTs. PracTices were long and hard, buT varied aT The same Time. PracTices Took up a loT of Time buT were helpful in The end, re- plied Margie Beck. Laurie Aldy believed, MosT of The sTarTers have been TogeTher for four years and our senior year should be The besT. G-ood defense helped The Team esTablish a perfecf home record CIT - Oy. Some of The Team members were a liTTle disappolnT- ed because They did so well and goT so liTTle fan supporT. Lisa Allen, exasperaTed from a hard prac- Tice, commenTed on The fan sup- porT, We Try our besT To win, buT iT is discouraging To play when we have liTTle or no supporT. The lack of fan supporT didn'T sTop The Tigers from going To Dis- TricTs. NexT year, The Team will be The majoriTy of This year's JV Team. Surrounded by opponents, Melissa Mein- berg shoofs skillfully for a basket Jumping and shooting, Sam Buford ouT plays her Two opponenTs while Lisa Allen awaiTs The ouTcome of Two poinTs. VarsiTy Girls BaskeTball - 85